On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:51:15 -0400, Michael Meffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I have been looking at Derrick's patch from last spring >> to implement POSIX style chown, with the hope it can be >> included in OpenAFS 1.5. Since there are security implications >> to this change, I am posting it here for further review >> and comment. > >> The idea is to allow regular users to disown files when the >> C acl bit is set. > > What does POSIX have to do with this? POSIX does not require that > users have the ability to give away files. (In fact, a "strictly > conforming" POSIX implementation shall not allow this.) > > Does the patch include changes to allow pathconf(_PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED, > "/afs/...") to return the correct value?
For added fun, consider this: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5778 -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
